9th Circuit Issues Ruling Defining Auto Phone Dialing System

Mealey's (October 4, 2018, 7:40 AM EDT) -- PASADENA, Calif. — An automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS) as defined by the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) includes devices that store telephone numbers, regardless of whether those numbers have been generated by a random or sequential number generator, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Sept. 20, vacating a summary judgment ruling in a class complaint for the defendant (Jordan Marks, et al. v. Crunch San Diego, LLC, No. 14-56834, 9th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 26883)....